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    America was a steamboat which operated in the state of Oregon, on the upper Willamette River and Multnomah Channel from 1899 to 1911. This vessel should...
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    A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. The term steamboat is used to refer to...
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  • Government Printing Office. Steamboat-Inspection Service (1899). Annual Report of the Supervising Inspector-General, United States Steamboat-Inspection Service...
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    Nantucket Steamboat Co. in 1893 to the Mount Vernon & Marshall Hall Steamboat Co. of Washington, D.C. During 1897–1900 the Record of American and Foreign...
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    The Independence was a propeller-driven steamboat that was the first steam-driven vessel to run on Lake Superior in October 1845, initiating the era of...
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    42.878; -78.885 Walk-in-the-Water was a sidewheel steamboat that played a pioneering role in steamboat navigation on the Great Lakes. She was the first...
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  • "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1899". Ohio State University. Retrieved 8 October 2019...
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    Steamboat Rock is a city in Hardin County, Iowa, United States. The population was 264 at the time of the 2020 census. Steamboat Rock was platted in 1855...
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    Joseph LaBarge (category American steamboat people)
    Marie LaBarge (October 1, 1815 – April 3, 1899) was an American steamboat captain, most notably of the steamboats Yellowstone, and Emilie, that saw service...
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  • Island Rail Road Company in 1899 after a deal was struck with Joseph Fahys & Co. who held the majority stock in the steamboat company. The company office...
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    Steamboats on the Colorado River operated from the river mouth at the Colorado River Delta on the Gulf of California in Mexico, up to the Virgin River...
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    Steamboats on the Yukon River played a role in the development of Alaska and Yukon. Access to the interior of Alaska and Yukon was hindered by large mountains...
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    USS Algonquin (tug) (category Spanish–American War auxiliary ships of the United States)
    Crosley 1899, pp. 67–68. Crosley 1899, p. 68. Crosley 1899, p. 69. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending...
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  • characteristics of steamboats and towed barges placed in service on the Colorado River and its tributaries. The article Steamboats of the Colorado River...
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  • John's River Railway ACL 1899 1899 Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Jacksonville and Southwestern Railroad ACL 1899 1904 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad...
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    This is a list of steamboats on the Yukon River. Please see Steamboats of the Yukon River for historical context. White Pass Barges (102 vessels): 25 barges...
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    gunboats. Shipyards in Cairo, Illinois, and St. Louis built or modified steamboats. The Confederacy experimented with the submarine CSS Hunley, which was...
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    Vibbard or just Vibbard, was a steamboat built in New York in 1864 for passenger service on the Hudson River. The first steamboat built specifically for what...
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    Leighton Brothers (category 20th-century American comedians)
    also composed various songs, most notably "Steamboat Bill," the tune used in the Disney animated short, Steamboat Willie. Born to Irish immigrants, the Leighton...
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  • David C. Robinson (c. 1833 – 1874), was a steamboat captain on the Colorado River from 1857 to 1873. A ships carpenter, David C. Robinson, came to the...
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    architecture, but Steamboat Gothic usually refers to large houses in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys that were designed to resemble the steamboats on those...
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    USS Abarenda (AC-13) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    scrapped in 1934. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1908". Harvard University. Retrieved...
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  • 1850 and 1950. All entries relate to items on the list of Murray–Darling steamboats. 1. Spelling : Information in this article has mostly been gleaned from...
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    Many steamboats operated on the Columbia River and its tributaries, in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, from about 1850 to 1981. Major tributaries...
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    Hubbard L. Hart (category American hoteliers)
    Hart (May 4, 1827 – December 12, 1895) was an American entrepreneur who ran the most prominent steamboat line in Florida. He augmented his business with...
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  • United States Playing Card Company (category American companies established in 1867)
    introduced in 1883, was the bargain-priced Steamboat (No. 999) which competed with other cheap steamboat-themed decks offered by other companies. In...
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    navigation on Lake Coeur d'Alene lasted from the 1880s to the 1930s. More steamboats operated on Lake Coeur d’Alene than on any other lake west of the Great...
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    Mark Twain (category 19th-century American novelists)
    than that, must... actually know where these things are in the dark". Steamboat pilot Horace E. Bixby took Twain on as a cub pilot to teach him the river...
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    Blanche Bruce (category Use American English from December 2019)
    attended Oberlin College for two years in Oberlin, Ohio. He next worked as a steamboat porter on the Mississippi River. In 1864, he moved to Hannibal, Missouri...
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    Okeehumkee (category Steamboats of Florida)
    Inspection Service. United States Steamboat Inspection Service. 1899. p. 216. Retrieved June 16, 2013. "River Steamboat "Okeehumkee" by Landing". World...
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